In the wake of the publication of her widely and effusively praised 2024 book Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell, eminent music writer Ann Powers visits Haverford for a reading and conversation with Gustavus Stadler of the English Department, followed by audience Q&A.
Ann Powers is NPR Music's critic and correspondent. Throughout a long career in music writing, she has worked at the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, and many other publications. A former curator at Seattle's Museum of Popular Music, she is the author of Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell (2024); Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music (2017), which was selected as one of the best books of 2017 by the Wall Street Journal, No Depression, NPR, and Buzzfeed; the New York Times best-selling Tori Amos Piece by Piece, co-authored with the artist (2005), and Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America (1999), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. With Evelyn McDonnell, she edited the classic anthology Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Rap, and Pop (1995). Her essays have been widely anthologized. In 2017 she co-founded NPR’s award-winning Turning the Tables, an ongoing project to recenter the popular music canon to be more inclusive of marginalized, underestimated, and forgotten voices. She lives in Nashville.
